14 example sentences using parasite.
Parasite used in a sentence
Parasite in a sentence as a noun
One becomes a disease or parasite of the other.
But to shoot back in public and call him a parasite and the weakest person on the team?
One is an irritating parasite that feeds off humans.
The congressman is like a parasite with tentacles into the host's brain.
What we see here is the parasite trying to drill a hole and insert another tentacle into the host.
It's better than shooting zombies with peas or wiping out the world with an engineered parasite.
This is just work for them-- although I can't fathom how they can sleep at night making a living by being what amounts to a parasite.
The parasite's power is only as great as it's ability to convince the host that it is in the best interests to feed the parasite.
What we have here is a worthless parasite class -- a decadent nobility -- that has buried itself into our civilization like a tick.
I may be almost completely disease- and parasite-free, but the guy that's been training five hours a day since he was five will always lift more than me and run further than me.
The Myhrvold guy is a parasite, and so are the source of his $5 billion capital and the ridiculous state of patent law that enables his behavior.
And a meta-parasite is making me write apologetics for other parasites.
Basic income means that every hour worked or dollar earned increases your standard of living, thus creating a higher incentive to work.>You'd have two classes of citizens: the workers and those who are effectively parasites off of the workers.
To me, however, a programmer is who I'm looking for, while a resume full of revenue increases and cost reductions sounds like an "anomalously high-cost parasite who types some mumbo-jumbo into Excel and PowerPoint, claiming credit for others' work".
Parasite definitions
an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host